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In a fuguelike scene, Edith is “on fire and still alive, when I knew I would see the other side, and you opened the mask. Behind it, appalling, extracting endlessness.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2021

And before you know it “Transcription” has turned from a wartime spy yarn into a fuguelike meditation on the fungibility of female identity.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018

Mr. Fenton and Mr. Strickland, who riffs on nature documentary in a fuguelike stretch of his “Berberian Sound Studio,” cleanly blend the stage and superimpositions into one vaulted canvas of swirling color and gesture.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2014

But as the sonic violence takes its toll on him, the film’s culture-clash humor gives way to an uncanny fuguelike seepage between reality and artifice.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2013

Essays impersonating an autobiography; six chapters of sad, fuguelike repetition.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez